破碎之花

简单来说，《破碎之花》是关于一位“暮年唐璜”重温曾经“辉煌战绩”的旅程。

有一天，他突然收到一封自称是他以前情人的来信，信中她声称已经独自将他俩的孩子抚养成人了。

人的记忆很奇怪，有些事情过的太久就自动隐没在了脑海里，只有当你踏上故事发生时的土壤，那熟悉的画面又会鬼使神差地一股脑儿崩出来。

大地储存着我们的记忆，自我们离她而去时，她就在等待着我们的归期，用回忆湿润我们即将干涸的心灵。

花？

我们就是那株花，与人相遇相知相识相恋，开出了花瓣一朵朵。

曾几何时人生如此绚烂，旧的才刚黯淡，新的又已开出，一瓣花一个故事，一个故事一阵悲伤。

五段拜访构成了这个由家向过去出发的旅途，无论是在空中还是在地面，比尔·默瑞那张永远写满不快的脸几乎没有从镜头中消失过，我们甚至能够在后视镜中看到躲藏在墨镜后面那双写满落寞的眼。

很多人都抱怨，为什么上天不给他们多个机会，好让他们有更多的希望，但唐·约翰斯顿的质问却是：“上天为什么给我那么多的机会让我来搞砸，给了我那么多的绝望。

”他是发展关系的大师，却是维系关系的白痴。

他爱过的次数越多，弄砸一段感情的几率就越大。

这种自我目击对他来说是最沉痛的打击，没有什么比看着自己凋谢枯萎更绝望的事了。

于是，唐的拜访之旅也越发地不靠谱，从甜蜜的温床到伤心的坟墓，我们见证了唐这段旅途的温馨与冷漠，旧情难了与毅然决然，爱情的初啼与爱情的死亡。

比尔·默瑞演出了唐这样一个本应遭人嫉恨的花花公子身上的悲壮，当他失魂落魄委曲求全仍被击倒在地，当他无比惋惜无比惆怅地端坐在蜜雪儿的墓碑前，我们大致可以勾画出这样的轮廓：一个感情略丰富的风流郎恰好遇上了连绵不绝的春风，于是他在开花的道上越走越远……故事结尾，唐告诉他自以为是他儿子的男青年：过去和未来都太遥不可及，能做的只有把握当下。

三言两语后，青年落荒而逃……不多久，一辆车驶近，唐与车内的另一名男青年对视，车辆远去。

镜头捉住了唐无尽迷茫的双眼——生活总是以无孔不入的黑色幽默让我们明白，所谓的当下根本无从把握。

谁让花开，谁又令花落，时光荏苒，看自己，徒留枯枝一枚。

2013.05http://i.mtime.com/fabzany/blog/7605411/

陪伴放映君度过6个单身情人节的老电脑未能完成召唤神龙的使命，于昨晚正式罢工，在数度抢救无效后，今天的人物专刊就胎死硬盘中了。

此刻，放映君正坐在浓烟漫布的网吧一角，在一片打打杀杀的背景里重新寻找推荐电影的灵感，这样听上去很敬业有木有。

刚刚过去的双节可以说是一半人的激情狂欢对抗另一半人的终极孤单，无论你身处哪一方，当今早的太阳重新升起，从晨暮中醒来，那份叫做甜蜜或者孤单的荷尔蒙都已经消弱大半，昨晚的盛开玫瑰花在今天已经开始凋落。

这样的日子适合不思考，不追求，坐下来看一部安静的电影，一部有着淡淡的情感又不失趣味的电影。

《破碎之花》就是这样的电影。

有人说这是一部小爸爸找蝌蚪的故事，这样说听上去很风趣。

风华五十载，人生刚开始。

主角饰演者比尔•默瑞 是一个比“大叔”要高级存在的可爱小老头，这个老年花花公子突然顿悟了乐不宜迟的道理，带着五束鲜花去拜见曾经的五位老情人，上演了一部美国版“那些花儿”的故事。

话说放映君也是一个恋旧的人，想象过人生最美好的镜头是与曾经的爱人共进晚餐。

但当在街角偶遇多年未见的初恋情人，一颗原子弹就在身体里爆炸了，甚至来不及寒暄就擦肩而过，烛光晚餐只是梦里的故事罢了。

所以，如唐般大胆又有趣的寻爱之旅不是每个人都有魄力去实现的。

既然做不到，看看别人的故事也无妨。

破碎之花，镜头从中产阶级住宅区，到底特律的穷人区，再到乡间小路，像描绘了一张美国风情画，配上有些古怪的埃塞俄比亚音乐演绎成一场有趣的追爱之旅。

相信这样一个妙趣横生的小故事在情人节后日观看，会给你一段安静平和的时光。

by冷锋

一个人的一生究竟有什么意义？

他所做的事又有什么意义？

对大多数人，答案是并没有太多。

主人公或许也这么认为。

他的生活没有激情，对什么都打不起兴趣，也不愿意干。

即使收到匿名信，说他有个19岁的儿子，他也懒得去理会。

一个过分热情的邻居替他安排了探索过往女友的全部行程，他也就这么可有可无的出发了。

这些女人或是带着早熟放荡的女儿住在简易小平房里，或是和庸俗可笑的丈夫住在品位低下的新富住宅里，或是严格遵循有机生活自称能和动物沟通，或是远离人群过着嬉皮生活的摩托女郎。

主人公一一拜访了他们，得到的待遇不同，但都没给他带来惊喜。

最后在一个雨天，他来到一个已经去世的女友墓前，想到自己这无聊的一生，落下泪来。

影片的最后，他说：The past is goneThe future isn't here yetWhat we have is...is this, the present但是，现在有什么呢？

什么都没有。

仔细想一想，五个情人，其实是一段感情的不同阶段。

第一个情人lora,代表最初的热恋，所以两个人在一起特别融洽，可以继续狂热。

到第二个的时候，隔阂已经发生，虽然还有一点感情，但明显是有了一堵墙了，不再有默契的感觉。

第三个情人卡门已经形同陌路了，不想再和他有任何瓜葛。

第四个Penny时已反目成仇，大打出手，不是陌生人，而是仇人。

到第五个时已经人鬼殊途了。

第一次看贾慕许的影片，即是《断花》，broken flowers.不了解这导演，但却为影片的节奏所打动。

这是一部散文风格的作品。

一个中年男子，为了一封来信，为了确认私生子的信息，重新去回顾与检索生命中的女子。

这样的旅程是一场反思，有淡淡的悲哀。

女人如花，曾经绽放，却已被命运安排遥远。

如今回首，已是镜花水月，花事仍在，却只是电光石火的梦中映像而已。

那根脉，早已在自弃与被弃中断裂。

如是，一个秘密悲哀着，欲说还休：女人乃是男人的全部历史......

粉色的信封被寄信人扔进了邮箱，随着大批的信件一起通过了流水线，然后被送上飞机飞往世界各地，最后千里迢迢的来到了唐的手中。

这个开头奠定了整部影片的调子都是这样不疾不徐，但同时那首一开始便乡村味十足的背景音乐，又隐约透露着影片的有趣和带劲。

于是，当唐开始阅读这封信的前两三行字时，你是多么容易以为你正在看《一封陌生女人的来信》。

而当读到青春期的儿子踏上寻父征程时，你又会以为即将要上演《咪咪流浪记》的桥断。

最后，当唐自己踏上寻找旧日女友的旅途时，你还会以为这是一部公路电影。

可事实上，他什么都不是。

要说是什么，只能说是我的联想太丰富。

所以我还可以告诉你，这部影片还能让我想起陈绮贞的《小尘埃》。

淡淡的BOSA NOVA调子，绵软的女声，可是这回，我却真的击中要害了。

《小尘埃》可以说是唐心情的真实写照。

不信，你去听一听。

这个世界还有谁能比贾木许更闷骚？

蔡明亮或韦斯·安德森？

后面这两位朋友可打破头也想不出来《破碎之花》这样的闷骚故事的，一件运动服能捣腾出如此意味深长的结尾，贾木许的能量实在是奇特。

更奇特的是比尔·莫瑞，他真是一脸的骚气。

那张总是像刚自杀失败一样沮丧的脸，是最好的闷骚招牌。

情人们如过眼云烟，她们风格各异，谁写了那封该死的信其实根本不重要，有一个孩子也不算个事儿。

当年年轻时那股潇洒不羁不顾一切的劲头儿，到了老年，全都变成无的放矢的父爱安慰剂了吗？

比尔·莫瑞的黑人邻居那空前的热情，混合上奇怪的非洲音乐，整部电影就像闷骚两个字一样，闷，骚。

最后比尔·莫瑞看到现实中自己的亲儿子时，我真想吻贾木许。

结果贾导这时果断来了一个360度的转拍，这闷骚的劲儿呦……2013年4月28日

Words disappearWords once so clearOnly echoesPassing through the nightThe lines on my faceThe fingers once tracedFading reflectionsOf what was....Thoughts rearrangeFamiliar, now strangeAll my schemesDrifting on the windSpring brings the rainWith winter comes painEvery season has an endI’ll tryTo see through disguiseFor the clouds were thereBlocking out the sunThe sun...Thoughts rearrangeFamiliar, now strangeAll my schemesDrifting on the windSpring brings the rainWith winter comes painEvery season has an endThere’s an end...With the background music of Ethionpian Jazz, begins this movie, the lyrics are very clearly sung, pictures showing an unidentified woman puts a pink-envolope letter into a mailbox. Then a trip of searching starts. After I finished this movie, I realized that from the beginning to the end, the director, Jim Jarmusch didn't mean to reveal this mystery. We, together with Don Johnson, who used to live a Don-Juan life, were fooled by the director, or we maysay, the never-sure-who-they-are mother, or ex-girlfriend and a "hypothetic" son. The answer remained a may-be in the end. The color pink could be worn or used by any woman. The woman could possibly be Laura, still wearing the pearls sent by Don and keeping the picture he took for her. The answer could possibly be Carmen, who WAS a passionate lawyer, and now IS a communicator between pets and keepers and has a magical mind-reading cat named WINSTON, which is the same with Don's neighbor. Another possible nominee is Penny, who seems very miserable, but guarded by two loyal ganster-like male friends, because Don happened to find a pink typewriter deserted outside her broken house. Nay, these clues doesn't mean anything., even the pink ribbon on the "suspect" British-accent young man's bag can be a coincidence. But the director is trying to drive Don and the audience crazy, leading him and us to realize the deep yearning for a family, or someone to connect with., so that we don't have to sit pathetically during the holiday or weekend, being alone in the living room, looking back at our early ludicrous life, thinking for a compensation. We can't imagine what a Don Juan our protagonist used to be, and obviously he is not a Don Juan now. From his bahavior we know that he means to settle down, though he was not willing to admit this at the very beginning.Generally speaking, solving a mystery or a problem is a virtue of a good good film, unless there are significant necessasities for an open ending. Apparently, Jim Jarmusch has a reason for this open ending, but the question is, does it appear to be necessary for the audience? As for me, I think there is, because the purpose of Jarmusch is not on solving the mystery of the unidentified mother and son, but the problems inside a middle-aged ex-Don Juan's heart. He emphasized it through the background video on the TV, Don Juan, pointing out that being a Don Juan wasn't so pleasant as it appears to everybody. Don loves his current girlfriend, but he just desn't know how to show it, so he hates to be called Don Juan. He was not a coward to face his past and his resposibilties. So he started the journey, accepting the kindness of his over-enthusiatic neighbour, who seems to be his only loyal friend. He knows, however, that the trip was not for finding back the past, but for moving on with the present and waiting patiently for the future, his future, though he wasn't sure what that is. That's why, in the end, he said to the young man, who he thought may possibly be his son, as a so-called "philosophical tip",:The past is gone. I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it is going to be. So all there is, is this, the present.Jarmusch, a veteran director of phylosophical movies, this time still wants to discuss with us the philosophy of facing the truth of our life. He put his humor into this movie. When I hear the cat is coincicently also called Winston, I know it's a joke, a cold joke (ironing the silliness of Winston, a detective who is a little bit paranoid). This movie is full of cold jokes, all the coincidences are cold jokes, all the pinks, the same style sports suits of different colors on 3 different persons (Don, young man and a stranger in a car passing by in the last scene.) It would be very interesting if you take a plunge into the study of those coincidence, of course they are not just for fun. A cold joke always links an irony with an insight. Some comments say that Jarmusch is very proficient with using music in movies. That's true. His use of Ethiopian music does achieve several effects. As far as I can tell, there are at least 4 functions:1. Since Winston is an Ethionpian-American, and he has a lovely and traditional family, the music reflects the director's approval for traditional value for families.2. The foreign music produce a tone of absurdity, which is the color of this movie, leading us to a seemingly paranoid inner world, or inner state every one might experience in certain circumstances.3. Ethiopian jazz seems to be perfectly fit for road trip. The drumming produce a feeling of "one the way". 4. The Ethionpain CD sounds a little bit drowsy. What is the impression Don gives us, living a drowsy life, aimless and a little bit hopeless.In the end, the voice who started the movie sings the familiar tune again:Words disappearWords once so clearOnly echoesPassing through the nightThe lines on my faceThe fingers once tracedFading reflectionsOf what was....Thoughts rearrangeFamiliar, now strangeAll my schemesDrifting on the windSpring brings the rainWith winter comes painEvery season has an endI’ll tryTo see through disguiseFor the clouds were thereBlocking out the sunThe sun...Thoughts rearrangeFamiliar, now strangeAll my schemesDrifting on the windSpring brings the rainWith winter comes painEvery season has an endThere’s an end...When our life is in a mess, be patient, and try to reveal the deep truth. Then take a drowsy trip to somewhere. Maybe we would find out what to do next. The past mysteries might not be solved, but it's there for a reason. Every season has an end, the drowsy vacation, the lonliness, the drifting, everything has an end, an end.

It is not easy to comment on Broken Flowers. I can't say I love it, but I do think it's worthwhile to have a look of what it's like.The film is symbol-flooded(I invented the term). It is so full of symbols that it almost makes me tired. Pink. Roses. Typewriter. Printed letters. Lolita. Don Juan. These symbols appeared in a recurring manner. This can be a good thing if these symbols actually tells something. Yet they don't and so they only become meaningless deja vus. And there the use of symbols form a trap, whether intentionally or unintentionally, in which once the audience discovered the use of symbolic references they'll be ever finding other symbols throughout the film. This is exactly what I have done...Yet besides the tiring symbols, I like the plot of this film. The open end is unexpected, but it looks quite natural once it came out. Sometimes, just sometimes, you could have come to absolutely nothing concrete after all the things you've done and suffered. It's the course of it that matters or is it the end. If you're comparing this film with Lost in Translation (Seriously I don't see many commanlities in them, except they're both starring Bill Murray (By the way I love calling him Uncle Bill, hehe) and, maybe, the mood of loneliness.) I would say Broken Flowers is a more ambitious attempt. Lost in Translation is somewhat easy to grasp and digest (that's why I said this film suited Americans' taste) because it only covers one or few themes while Broken Flowers dangerously dangles and struggles for balance between a single simple motif and making it look too complicated. Yet whether it succeeded or not, I dare not say.The scene I love most is the one in which Don is dreaming. Very beautifully shot. And I love the music of the film too. Bill Murray is, of course, a great actor. But do he, or did he, really look like a Don Juan? Hmmm. Not that convincing on that point. But in terms of telling the reluctances of life he's been doing a perfect job.

戛纳评委会大奖得主并不像我预想的那样沉闷艰涩，不但色调明亮，音乐轻快，而且叙述方式平实温和，如《杯酒人生》那般讲述一段中年男子的人生经历，带着点微妙的噱头，又不失悠长的回味。

其实作为普通观众，本片的吸引力一定程度上来自于那个并不算很有新意的悬念，只是到最后也并没有揭开谜底，男主角外出兜了一圈又回到原地，就好像什么也没发生一样。

但本片的高明或许就是在于忽略了故事本身的新鲜曲折，故事整体所蕴含的无奈怅惘的气味才是重点所在。

男主角的性格可以用闷骚两个字来概括。

当他在室内独处的时候，要么是在电视机前端坐一动不动，要么是慵懒地往沙发上一躺，接电话时慢条斯理语调平缓，有客来访也是面无表情不迎不拒，就算是女友离他而去也只是用着淡淡的语气客套挽留，似乎什么也不能引起他的兴致。

或许由于懒散的天性养成了他处变不惊的旷达心态，或许是生活的单调已然磨钝了他对任何欢愉和痛楚的敏感，但真的什么都激不起他心中的波澜么？

听着他很木然地读完那封揭开尘封往事的信，似乎并不准备对此有所行动，但仅仅是由于热心邻居的一点坚持和怂恿，他便踏上了那一段重温旧梦的旅程。

从死气沉沉的室内布景就可以看出，他的生活状态是非常冰冷孤寂的。

每个人心中都潜藏着对温暖和真情的企盼，即便外表如男主角这般萎靡颓废随遇而安。

当他获知自己可能有一个血肉牵系的儿子时，不可能不心潮暗涌。

表面上看他对什么都漠不关心，但他一路走去无时无刻不在注意着周遭的风韵妇人和妙龄女子，对目光所及的每一点粉红色都保持着细腻的敏感。

表面上看他是个也呆板无趣的男人，但从他的谈吐中也可发现一些机智和幽默，一种冷峻的个性魅力，否则年轻时也不会惹下这许多风流孽债。

他从不刻意追求，但就是那种不屑一顾的冷漠对女人们形成了一种自然而然的吸引力，连素昧平生的卖花女子也会对他额角的伤痕心生怜惜。

只是他这种散漫个性显然难以支撑起一个稳定的家庭，所以每段恋情都无疾而终。

他发言问询每一位旧爱的时候或许都鼓起了万分勇气，但每次都问得模棱两可含糊不清，所以始终也无法问出一个结果。

最后的发足狂奔是他唯一一次主动追求，但一瞬间的迷失就让他迟疑地缓下步来。

四位女子的设置应该是本片的最大亮点，对他的态度或热情、或冷淡、或抗拒、或怨怼，并没有人拥有什么超凡脱俗的身份，或者发生什么惊世骇俗的变故，但不同的性格特征和人生境遇都从不经意的寒暄和眼神间透露出来，益发让人感觉到普通人生活的丰富质感。

其实我最欣赏的是第三个女子，如空谷幽兰一般隐居世外，与动物进行着对等的沟通，待客时从容大方温婉可人，却又含蓄克制保持距离，真希望她就是那封信的主人。

她的说话间也隐约带着些人生哲理，似乎是通过长时间与动物之间的真诚相待获得了心灵的平静和升华。

狗与邻居的同名巧合似乎暗示着朋友之间交心的可贵，爱情和婚姻并不是人生的全部。

或许也该把墓地里的那位算上吧，她的空缺留给了男主角幻想的空间，弥补前四位给他留下的种种遗憾。

唐璜、洛莉塔这些名字都带有着明显的符号化意义，可惜的是导演的不厌其烦反复强调反而落下了炫技的嫌疑，第一次提到的时候观众会觉得这是一种巧妙的暗示，第二次给人以玩弄概念的感觉了，还不如漫不经心一笔带过更有含蕴。

还有就是男主角的两次梦境回放，似乎要加深观众对这次旅程中重点意象的印象，但对我来说却觉得有失自然。

最后他对男孩说的关于过去未来的那句话，有一点要点明题旨的意思，但又自嘲式地通过男孩的口称之为“父亲说教式的废话”，态度好象暧昧不清，却终究留下了刻意的痕迹。

比尔·莫里似乎只适合这样的角色，孤独迷茫、形影相吊，在一次次寻求后收获的都只有生活的疲惫和麻木，无论是在《迷失东京》还是《水中生活》。

就像那一束束粉红色的花一样，虽然曾经得到过那生命最初的感动和美好，但终究无法承担起二十年时间的重量，一梦醒来依然难以避免支离破碎、四散飘零的命运，一切鲜艳无法重拾了。